Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xiii
4. Gendering the Nation 1
5. Pioneer
6. Nell Shipman: A Case of Heroic Femininity 17
7. Documentary
8. Studio D’s Imagined Community: From Development (1974) to Realignment (1986-1990) 41
9. Anti-Porn: Soft Issue, Hard World 62
10. Storytelling and Resistance: The Documentary Practice of Alanis Obomsawin 76
11. A Cinema of Duty: The Films of Jennifer Hodge de Silva 94
12. Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh 109
13. To Document – to Imagine – to Simulate 120
14. Avant-Garde
15. Feminist Avant-Garde Cinema: From Introspection To Retrospection 137
16. The Scene Of The Crime: Genealogies Of Absence In The Films Of Patricia Gruben 148
17. Narrative Fiction
18. Gender, Landscape, and Colonial Allegories in The Far Shore, Loyalties, and Mouvements du désir 165
19. A Minority on Someone Else’s Continent: Identity, Difference, and the Media in the Films of Patricia Rozema 183
20. Barbaras en Québec: Variations on Identity 197
21. Mourning the Woman’s Film: The Dislocated Spectator of The Company of Strangers 212
22. Fragmenting the Feminine: Aesthetic Memory in Anne Claire Poirier’s Cinema 225
23. Two Plus Two: Contesting The Boundaries Of Identity In Two Films By Micheline Lanctôt 244
24. Cowards, Bullies, and Cadavers: Feminist Re-Mappings of the Passive Male Body in English-Canadian and Quebecois Cinema 253
25. Querying/Queering the Nation 274
26. Playing in the Light: Canadianizing Race and Nation 291
27. Selected Bibliography 311
28. Contributors 317
29. Index 321